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Veronica Whitford

University of New Brunswick
Verified email at unb.ca
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Bilingual lexical access during L1 sentence reading: The effects of L2 knowledge, semantic constraint, and L1–L2 intermixing.

D Titone, M Libben, J Mercier, V Whitford… - Journal of …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Libben and Titone (2009) recently observed that cognate facilitation and interlingual homograph
interference were attenuated by increased semantic constraint during bilingual second …

[HTML][HTML] Second-language experience modulates first-and second-language word frequency effects: Evidence from eye movement measures of natural paragraph …

V Whitford, D Titone - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2012 - Springer
We used eye movement measures of first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) paragraph
reading to investigate whether the degree of current L2 exposure modulates the relative …

The effects of word frequency and word predictability during first-and second-language paragraph reading in bilingual older and younger adults.

V Whitford, D Titone - Psychology and aging, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We used eye movement measures of paragraph reading to examine how word frequency and
word predictability impact first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) word processing …

Eye movement methods to investigate bilingual reading

V Whitford, I Pivneva, D Titone - Methods in bilingual reading …, 2016 - Springer
This chapter provides a general overview of the use of eye movement recordings to investigate
the cognitive processes that underlie natural reading, including first- (L1) and second-…

Second-language experience modulates eye movements during first-and second-language sentence reading: evidence from a gaze-contingent moving window …

V Whitford, D Titone - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Eye movement measures demonstrate differences in first-language (L1) and second-language
(L2) paragraph-level reading as a function of individual differences in current L2 …

Bilingual experience and resting-state brain connectivity: Impacts of L2 age of acquisition and social diversity of language use on control networks

JW Gullifer, XJ Chai, V Whitford, I Pivneva, S Baum… - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigated the independent contributions of second language (L2) age of acquisition (AoA)
and social diversity of language use on intrinsic brain organization using seed-based …

Reading impairments in schizophrenia relate to individual differences in phonological processing and oculomotor control: evidence from a gaze-contingent moving …

V Whitford, GA O'Driscoll, CC Pack… - Journal of …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Language and oculomotor disturbances are 2 of the best replicated findings in
schizophrenia. However, few studies have examined skilled reading in schizophrenia (eg, Arnott, …

Eye movements and the perceptual span during first-and second-language sentence reading in bilingual older adults.

V Whitford, D Titone - Psychology and Aging, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
This study addressed a central yet previously unexplored issue in the psychological science
of aging, namely, whether the advantages of healthy aging (eg, greater lifelong experience …

Contrasting bilingual and monolingual idiom processing.

D Titone, G Columbus, V Whitford, J Mercier, M Libben - 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
In this chapter, we survey what is currently known about bilingual idiom processing and present
data from a study that investigates three questions about the comprehension of idioms in …

Reading deficits in schizophrenia and their relationship to developmental dyslexia: A review

V Whitford, GA O'Driscoll, D Titone - Schizophrenia research, 2018 - Elsevier
Although schizophrenia and developmental dyslexia are considered distinct disorders in
terms of clinical presentation and functional outcome, they both involve disruption in the …